If there are people not pursuing an education then how will they gain leadership and set an example for everyone else to do the same in their social class. Another thing that is essential is that fist we need to help ourselves rather than looking for help. The people in poverty need to strive for college education and leadership individually. Having leaders is a necessity to balance out and fix the negatives of income stratification and educational stratification for the better future of this country. Herbert supports this thought stating “I don’t think Mr. Vander Ark was engaging in hyperbole.
Douglas argued that w/c parent’ attitudes prevent children form being successful in education. Middle class children parents are more interested in their children’s education, and were more encouraging and more willing to help them. Sugarman supported Douglas’ theory that the w/c and m/c had different attitudes, which can affect their education. There were four key features of his theory; Fatalism (The w/c believe that everything happens for a reason, even failing an exam. With this frame of mind, they lack the motivation to do better and succeed.
The ideal was to establish a set of basic academic standards that all students should achieve, hold the schools accountable for meeting these standards for all students, ←and→ then give educators the choice of how to meet the standards. The way NCLB is currently being administered must be fixed, otherwise we will have both new ←and→ seasoned talented teachers leaving the profession in droves. Although reading ←and→ math tests would remain in the administration's proposal, schools could also include student performance in other subjects as part of overall measurements of progress. Critics say that the current education law has narrowed the curriculum for students:→ Many teachers zero in on math ←and→ reading at the expense of other subjects to help students prepare for the required tests. (Douglas) Students need a well-rounded education," the blueprint declares, and it cites disciplines including history, civics, foreign languages, and the arts.
Pablo Freire allows us to see what he believes is the ongoing problem with our educational system. He makes a very compelling argument stating that it is not the way we teach but how we mentally categorize learning. Teachers assume that they have all the knowledge needed to pass on to their students and students know nothing. As if the students are a blank canvas that the teacher get to throw their paint on. This is what Freire calls the educational banking system.
John Holt writes in his essay “School Is Bad for Children,” explains “We need to get kids out of the school buildings, give them a chance to learn about the world at first hand.” (Holt, pg.67.) I agree, freedom for students to learn is what educators need to start doing. Instead of sitting there and listening to the gibberish that the teacher is trying to explain, students can learn by doing and being more hands on. Holt adds, “Students, perhaps in groups, perhaps independently, will go to libraries, museums, exhibits, court rooms, legislatures, radio and TV stations, meetings, businesses, and laboratories to learn about their world and society at first hand.” (Holt, pg. 67) If education was taught this way, then when students do venture out into the real world to find work or continue on higher education they are more prepared to face them head
It is for the purpose of labeling peers and deciphering which children are inferior, it is the social aspect of schooling. Lastly, the propaedeutic function teaches a minimal amount of children to manage the population to that the government can continue without being challenged. Initially I was taken aback while reading Gatto’s article, particularly in regards to Inglis six functions but upon further review and digging deep into my own personal experiences with the public education system, predominantly looking at my years spent in high school I would say there are some sad realities behind theses six
Murray presented his book “Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America’s Schools Back to Reality.” (2008) Where he talks about his point of view on higher education; he doesn’t believe it is something everybody should be doing, since not everybody is prepared to attend college and struggle with all that is involved in the process of getting a B.A. Murray, although presenting interesting facts, might or might not be right, because education and success aren’t correlated in their totality. While it is important
Bloom out right calls out the universities for not being able to come to a consensus on what subjects should be instilled into the new in coming students. Bloom reveals how many universities are just inflating their schools with “composite courses” and no so worth while courses and options. The “composites courses” are where professors come together to form a class. With names such as “Man in Nature”, “ Culture and the Individual”, and War and Moral Responsibility”, bloom has a problem with these courses because they don't “don't not point beyond themselves and do not provide the student with independent means to pursue permanent questions like Aristotle or Kant once did”(Bloom 427). Also with the adding of courses such as “Black Studies” and “Women’s or Gender studies” and “study abroad” options.
Gatto is saying that schooling is made for kids to adapt to; it has adaptive qualities, therefore there is a chance for everyone to succeed if they really want to, but it takes away from any individual thinking. Conforming is another evil of school because it makes us forced to learn things we really have no interest in and as Gatto states “its intention is to make children as alike as possible”(153). A lot of students use this excuse while they are in high school “when am I ever going to use this again in life” ill be honest I have said it before but I don't necessarily agree with these students because you need to build a base education before you figure out what you want your schooling to focus on. Kids change their minds everyday, I realized that I’m not quite sure I want to be an art major anymore, even being in the first couple of classes I knew it wasn’t for me
The response of which, the teacher gets mad and implements a punishment; the counselor walks in and stops this punishment and talks to the kid instead. They came to find out that Eric Buttler was raising his siblings and watching his mother do drugs, the stress was too much; “[W]e were about to put this kid out of school, when what he really deserved was a medal.” With the implementation of this new program of talking instead of issuing punishment, you see a positive change in the boy’s outlook and keeps another kid in school. Davis explains it best when she states,” [p]unitive Justice asks only what rule or law was broken, who did it, and how they should be punished. It responds to the original harm with more harm. Restorative justice asks who was harmed, what are the needs and obligations of all affected and how does everyone affected figure out how to heal the harm”.